CFD simulations of offshore oil and gas platforms are used to predict the maximum wind loads acting on the structure of the platform topsides (the upper half of the platform, above sea level and ...

At the 2013 Americas Altair Technology Conference last week in Garden Grove, Calif., Altair introduced an application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for evaluating a vehicle's external ...

SAN MATEO, CA (November 18, 2024) – Luminary Cloud today announced that it is demonstrating an interactive virtual wind tunnel that combines its cloud-native NVIDIA CUDA-X-accelerated CFD SaaS with ...

TROY (WWJ) --Altair today introduced HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel, a streamlined and high quality vertical application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for the automotive industry. The ...

Formula 1, which begins an era of budget caps in 2021, is looking at the high cost of wind tunnels as a possible place to save money. Teams would replace wind tunnel data with more CFD, or ...

Before supercomputers, wind tunnels quantified performance. Reference measurements on this model are used to determine the cross-sectional area for tests of a modified F-8's supercritical wing. NASA A ...

Wind tunnels aren’t just for testing aircraft anymore. Climatic wind tunnels, a variation on traditional wind tunnels, have been used by a host of large-scale manufacturers to thoroughly test ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 5 (October 2020), pp. 483-493 (11 pages) Wind farm control has demonstrated power production improvements using yaw-based wake steering compared to individual turbine ...